Example sentences of "[that] [verb] like a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet every time he laughed and his grin dazzled her she flinched with the deep-rooted need that stabbed like a vengeful sword . |
| 2 | Chang was muscular , unemotional , self-contained , with a smile that flickered like a defective light bulb . |
| 3 | If they 're selling those imitation trees , and if they 've got that wonderful one that looks like a real tree if they can say to me yes , we can rope it up for you in such a way that it 's got a handle on it . |
| 4 | Monaco has produced yet more mirror glass , with a doll 's house Georgian faade , Pakistan something that looks like a pretentious curry house in Southall . |
| 5 | You go up some steps to a reception area , from where you have a clear view down into the clean kitchen , then down some steps into a dining room that looks like a well-lit Tube tunnel . |
| 6 | Beware of anything that looks like a do-it-yourself job — crooked power points , for example . |
| 7 | that when you 've got one that looks like a right angle and they |
| 8 | Different sections can be masked off in various ways ( for example , by a black card or a partial image painted on glass , partly left clear ) and exposed separately — either to give a composite that looks like a single image , or to show multiple images at once . |
| 9 | The problem is to generate a pattern that looks like a French flag , that is the first third of the line of cells is blue , the middle third is white , and the last third is red . |
| 10 | Again they said yes , that seemed like a good idea , great , marvellous . |
| 11 | I also remember thinking at the time that dressing like a white man and taking a white man 's name was n't ever going to hide the Apache in him . |
| 12 | He was being drawn into that single point of pain that burned like a hot light . |
| 13 | Blood erupted from the wound that opened like a grinning mouth , spewing crimson over the lifeless figures . |
| 14 | Sitting up , he was overcome with one of those slow yawns that seem like a prolonged agony , which he stopped with his hand , murmuring , when sufficient oxygen had been inhaled , that he was not yet properly awake . |
| 15 | Sadly not , as I had thought , a record by King Beer called ‘ Animals That Swim ’ , ‘ King Beer ’ is a slow sort of talking ballad that sounds like a posh Jonathan Richman having a muse and a chorus that arrives very late in the song indeed . |
| 16 | A bowl , she decided , exploring with fingers that were almost too frozen to feel anything , with something inside it that felt like a tiny lump of candlewax — and a wick . |
| 17 | It was ludicrously swollen , unnecessarily big and wholly obstructive to anything that looked like a new idea . |
| 18 | Marc gave a getsure of impatience but did n't say anything , and Peter , a glass of something that looked like a triple Scotch in one hand and Sarella 's usual orange juice in the other , moved smoothly forward . |
| 19 | The ridged pasture was falling away in front of Sharpe , sloping down to a long dark oak wood from which a cart track ran north towards a big stone-walled farm that looked like a miniature fort . |
| 20 | ‘ Bizarro ’ ( Gedge liked the word ) came in a dark green sleeve with a design that looked like a red-coloured star shooting across a night sky . |
| 21 | It was somehow easier to say these things to something that looked like a top-secret weapon in transit . |
| 22 | Maybe , Charles reflected , his son-in-law was the result of some cloning experiment , by which creatures from another planet had created something that looked like a human being , but lacked the essential circuitry of humanity . |
| 23 | The slope eased , and I came over what had seemed from below like a ridge , but in fact was merely the folding of ice from a long saddle that ran like a narrow valley between west and east summits . |
| 24 | I still shudder at the memory of the only previous production I 've seen , which attempted to drag this 18th-century masterpiece kicking and screaming into the 20th century with the help of rap and reggae music and rewritten dialogue that sounded like a rejected Minder script . |
| 25 | Streets that follow like a tedious argument |
| 26 | The most successful discounters ‘ have a business system that works like a Swiss watch , ’ says Philippe Kaas , a Paris-based managing partner of OC&C , a strategy consultancy . |
| 27 | Its lights sparkled in the shadow of Earth but even as Jezrael watched its approach , Steel City was wheeling its impressive silver network into the full light of the sun and it became a diamond filigree that flashed like a new-born star . |